Motivational Quotes

Honesty

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

- Chilo

Best Quotes about Honesty

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

Fink, David Harold

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Keyes Jr., Ken

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

11.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

12.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

13.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

14.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Burns, George

15.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Landesberg, Steve

16.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

17.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

19.

I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

Robbins, Tim

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People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Mamet, David

21.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Iacocca, Lee

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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides

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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Houston, Sam

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You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]

Bible

25.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

26.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Cromwell, Oliver

27.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

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On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.

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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Fielding, Henry

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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

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Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Blum, Leon

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When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Moustakas, Clark

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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Stephen, Leslie

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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Otway, Thomas

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Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.

39.

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

40.

Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Twain, Mark

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If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

42.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

44.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Chilo

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There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Marx, Groucho

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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hill, Napoleon

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Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Raleigh, Sir Walter